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These Star Wars And Gundam Dioramas Will Melt Your Face

8:40PM May 16, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

As a kid, I was always impressed with models. I was more impressed with full-blown dioramas – still am. These dioramas, though, aren’t merely impressive; they’re brain-destroying. More »


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Honey, I Shrunk No Country For Old Men

10:00AM January 11, 2011 | Kyle VanHemert

Sometimes you happen upon something on the web and try to divine its greater meaning. Sometimes you just say, “OK why the hell not.” These meticulous 1:87 scale dioramas inspired by No Country For Old Men? Sure, yes, absolutely! More »


The Best Way To Recycle Those Damn Printer Cartridges

1:00PM August 24, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

PRINTER INK. Possibly more expensive than oil and blood. Definitely expensive enough that most people I know haven’t bothered owning a printer in years. These printer cartridge dioramas, however, give the increasingly obsolete printer cartridge a new lease on life. More »


Science-Fiction Dioramas Created Using Recycled Ink Cartridges

5:20PM August 23, 2010 | Cyriaque Lamar

Artist Faith Pearson took empty ink cartridges and used them as the building blocks for these wonderfully demented scenes from Star Trek, Godzilla and King Kong. It’s incredible how futuristic our 21st century garbage can appear. More »


60,000-Piece Lego Star Wars Hoth Diorama Features LEDs, Footprints

3:30AM December 22, 2008 | Jack Loftus

Not only is this Lego Star Wars diorama of the ice world Hoth fun to look at, it’s got some gadgety goodness inside too. Oh, and footprints. Tons of tiny minifig footprints.

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The Force is Tiny (and Incredibly Detailed) With This Amazing Lego Microscale Diorama

4:40AM September 25, 2008 | Jack Loftus

Lego microscale enthusiast RogueBantha has been busy. For the past year, he’s been putting the finishing touches on this incredible battle scene between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire, and over the weekend he placed the last brick. Now, Lego and Star Wars have been done before here at Gizmodo (the former being profiled dutifully by Jesus during his awesome trip), but the extra cool thing about this busy, incredibly detailed scene is that it’s done in 1:200 microscale. That means there’s tiny X-Wing’s making their strafing runs against tiny AT-AT’s; a bad arse monorail system; and even a massive transport ship—all captured using as few pieces as possible.

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